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On the relationship between economic integration, business environment and real convergence: The experience of the CEE countries

Głodowska, Agnieszka - In: Economies 7 (2019) 2, pp. 1-19

The aim of the article is to verify the convergence process of the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) (CEE10) countries … economic integration and convergence as well as business environment and growth. The study methods applied in in the article …10 and EU15 countries were developing in accordance with the convergence hypothesis. The impact of economic integration …

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Regional growth convergence and EU policies: Empirical evidence and measuring problems

Esposti, Roberto - In: CESifo Forum 09 (2008) 1, pp. 14-22

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Inequality and the duration of growth

Ostry, Jonathan D. - In: European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: … 12 (2015) 2, pp. 147-157

The relationship between income inequality and economic growth is complex. Some inequality is integral to the effective functioning of a market economy and the incentives needed for investment and growth. But inequality can also be destructive to growth, for example by amplifying the risk of...

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Does broadband infrastructure boost employment?

Falck, Oliver - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)

Broadband infrastructure enables fast access to the internet, which, evidence suggests, has significant effects on economic growth. However, labor market related issues have not received as much consideration. These include quantifying employment effects of broadband infrastructure roll-out and...

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Impact of government expenditure on economic growth in Nigeria, 1970-2019

Aluthge, Chandana; Jibir, Adamu; Abdu, Musa - In: CBN Journal of Applied Statistics 12 (2021) 1, pp. 139-174

This study investigates the impact of Nigerian government expenditure (disaggregated into capital and recurrent) on economic growth using time series data for the period 1970-2019. The paper employs Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model. To ensure robustness of results, the study accounts...

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Does infrastructural absorptive capacity stimulate FDI-growth nexus in ECOWAS?

Ogundipe, Adeyemi A.; Oye, Queen Esther; Ogundipe, … - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-19

The study assesses the relevance of infrastructural absorptive capacity in the foreign direct investment (FDI)-growth argument in ECOWAS. Though foreign aid has received a vast attention in the literature, however, an assessment of how the infrastructural readiness of the host economies drives...

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Capital markets, infrastructure investment and growth in the Asia Pacific region

Regan, Michael - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-28

This paper examines the relationship between infrastructure investment activity, capital market development, the role of public institutions and economic development in the Asia Pacific. It adopts a review approach drawing on empirical evidence over recent decades. Infrastructure is shown to be...

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Transport infrastructure and economic growth: Panel data approach for Armenia, Georgia and Turkey

Badalyan, Gohar; Herzfeld, Thomas; Rajcaniova, Miroslava - In: Review of Agricultural and Applied Economics 17 (2014) 2, pp. 22-31

Provision of efficient, reliable, and affordable infrastructure is essential for economic growth. Transportation infrastructure in particular, is vital to the prosperity of regions. To investigate the relationship and the direction of causality between transport infrastructure, investment in...

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The impact of the global financial and economic crisis convergence process in OECD countries

Greta, Marianna; Lewandowski, Krzysztof - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 18 (2015) 1, pp. 81-96

This paper analyzes the issue of convergence in OECD countries and tries to assess the effect of financial crisis on … the process of convergence. In other words it will consider whether the global financial crisis pulled the economies of … the convergence process as the Great Depression had 80 years ago. It will analyze the most important macroeconomic data …

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Economic Growth Paths in the CEE Countries and in Selected Emerging Economies, 1993-2007

Rapacki, Ryszard; Próchniak, Mariusz - In: Research in Economics and Business: Central and Eastern … 2 (2010) 1, pp. 5-33

of the CEE countries and the reference emerging economies. We use two econometric methods: income-level convergence …) resulted from the mechanism of absolute convergence. There were signs, however, that the former group was subject to a … conditional beta convergence. (3) Rapid economic growth of the CEE-10 countries has been driven to a large extent by the increase …

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